Nia Savage was a 15-year-old Black girl from Mobile, Alabama, who was shot in the chest inside her family’s home on Crenshaw Street on February 14, 2017. She was taken to USA Medical Center and died of her injuries. Police said only one other person was believed to have been in the room with her: her teenage boyfriend, Lakendrick Dyess, and they recovered a gun that had been stolen from an unlocked vehicle during a Mardi Gras parade.

Mobile police publicly described Dyess as a person of interest who might know how or why Nia was shot, but because he was a minor officials released limited information while they sought him. Eight days after the shooting a male body later identified as Dyess was found in Eslava Creek near a litter trap; authorities later ruled his death accidental and said they believed he died the same night Nia was killed. Reporting does not show any arrest, charge, trial, or conviction in Nia’s death.

Did anyone in Mobile know Nia or have information about what happened that night on Crenshaw Street?